Tag: daesh

Afghanistan (Tasnim) – Afghanistan is considering training and arming 20,000 civilians to defend territories where militants have been driven out, officials say, sparking fears the local forces could become another thuggish militia. The proposal for a government-backed armed group that would…

(Sputnik) – It has been revealed that Egypt led a concerted and ultimately successful effort in the United Nations to prevent the Saudi Arabian branch of Daesh being added to the UN terrorism sanctions list, in what may well have been…

Turkey (KurdPress) – Turkey’s National Security Council blames on Wednesday the U.S. government’s decision to arm the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria and stated that the attempt was “not befitting” a friend. In a statement released after a 4-1/2-hour meeting…

Middle East (SCF) – The recent NATO summit took a decision to formally become a member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS), in addition to its training mission in Iraq. Last year, NATO started a training and capacity-building mission for…

United States (Sputnik) -The Chief of the Pentagon, General James Mattis, has said that the US will be “accelerating the temp” of the fight against Daesh and that because of this civilian deaths should be seen as a “fact of…

Lebanon (Sputnik) – Leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of financing Daesh terror group and of committing atrocities in war-torn Yemen, describing the actions of Riyadh as a “state terror.” The Saudi policy in Yemen,…

Egypt (Sputnik) – Following attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, government jets attacked positions in eastern Libya. Egyptian state television reports that six strikes were conducted. The bombings were aimed at terrorist outposts, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said, adding that any…

Philippines (Tasnim) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday he would deal harshly with militants, after declaring martial law on Mindanao island following a failed raid on a hideout of Daesh-linked rebels. Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and…

Asia (Sputnik) – Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a terrorist group intent on establishing a caliphate in Southeast Asia, has reportedly rebuilt itself in recent years following a decline in 2007, the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) asserted, adding that the…

Iraq (Sputnik) – Turkey is reportedly preparing another air operation in Iraq’s Sinjar area, in a bid to destroy the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s communication channel between Syria and Iraq. After the town of Sinjar was liberated from Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), the Sinjar Resistance Forces, which…

Germany (Tasnim) – Security forces have launched a nationwide anti-terror operation in Germany on Wednesday. Police in the states of Saxony, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt and Berlin confirmed that properties have been searched. German anti-terror police carried out a series of pre-dawn raids…

Afghanistan (Tasnim) – Senior Trump administration and military officials are recommending sending several thousand additional American troops to Afghanistan to try to break a military deadlock in the 15-year war there, in part by pressuring the Taliban to negotiate with the…

Iraq (Sputnik) – US and Iraqi government officials are discussing the possibility of maintaining a significant number of American ground forces in Iraq even after Daesh is defeated. The US has maintained a powerful military presence in countries across the Middle East for years,…

Syria (Tasnim) – Participants of the intra-Syrian negotiations that wrapped up in the Kazakh capital city of Astana on Thursday have adopted a document on creating four security zones in the Arab country, a report said. According to the document, Russia…

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